BLASHILL OUT - May 1st, 2022

Winged Wheel Podcast - A Detroit Red Wings Podcast

Winged Wheel Podcast

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5 • 869 Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 118 minutes

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Summary

After 7 seasons, Jeff Blashill is no longer the head coach of the Detroit Red Wings. Tune in as we dissect the announcement that Steve Yzerman would not be renewing the contracts of Blashill, assistant coach Doug Houda, or goaltending coach Jeff Salajko - we discuss what went wrong, who could replace Blashill in Hockeytown, & more (4:55).

We also talk with Prashanth Iyer and Max Bultman (The Athletic) about the coaching change, go through some likely candidates to step in, & what's next for Yzerman, the #Yzerplan, players like Larkin, Bertuzzi, Seider, & others, & more (39:58)!

Finally, we take a look at some news about the SHL transfer agreement & Detroit's Draft Lottery standings (1:16:00) before giving you our 2022 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs predictions (1:25:41). We also take a look at some playoff betting odds (1:38:40) before heading into Overtime - enjoy this monster episode!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the winged wheel podcast. Here to talk all things hockey are your
0:10.0	hosts Brad Crisco, Ryan Hanna, and Evan Lobsinger.
0:13.4	So yesterday, at around the time of the announcement, you, Brad, were driving with your family into the
0:26.9	Hellscape known as Toronto.
0:28.1	Yes.
0:29.1	Evan, you were just about to hit the road to drive out of town.
0:34.4	Oh, I was in the front yard doing some lawn stuff.
0:37.6	And that's when the news dropped.
0:40.9	After seven years of being coach of the Detroit Red Wings Jeff Blaschel
0:47.2	was effectively relieved of his duties as it was announced that he was not going to be
0:51.5	extended as head coach in Hockey Town.
0:54.8	You called me at 2.05 PM.
0:57.0	Yeah.
0:58.0	Because that's what people do at 2.05 PM.
1:00.6	They fire their head coach on a Saturday. Well, was it his birthday?
1:05.3	We'll get into we'll get into the timing and I think we shouldn't have been
1:10.4	surprised. No. But I really thought, I thought it was going to happen,
1:16.0	but I thought it was going to happen after the world
1:17.4	championships, but I was stupid for thinking that,
1:19.4	but we'll get into it.
1:20.2	But after seven years, this is the first time that we are talking about a non- Jeff Blasheel, Detroit Redwoods.
1:29.8	We're not having the theoretical conversation of what's this year of Jeff Blashill going to be.
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